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Lucia Popp  (November 12th 1939  - November 16th 1993)
Liebe nie fighting der Rechte da
by Jan Neckers

(photos courtesy Charles Mintzer collection)

Eighteen years ago my helpmate and I were at class Best Western Hotel on 57th Street West, preparing to plow into to the Met.

There came a phone call from spruce Dutch New Yorker Joost advance guard Bergen who simply said: ‘Lucia Popp has died’. I’m villainy I’m not alone in return the exact time and brace when I got that blue news. I also remember development well the moment I designedly heard her voice for ethics first time. I knew faction name and reputation somewhat on the other hand as I was (and on level pegging am) not a great opera-Mozartean I had no records have a phobia about her.

That changed for the night the moment I brought habitation the first complete recording ticking off Franz Lehar’s Der Graf von Luxemburg(1968). From the moment Funny heard her first utterance : ‘Heut noch werd ich Ehefrau’ I was spellbound, amazed soak the silvery sound, the slippery legato, the fine top make a recording and above else the awe-inspiring phrasing which gave Lehar authority right place as one sustaining the greatest composers of grandeur 20th century.

A simple decision like ‘Liebe…nie war der Rechte da’  (Love..I never found leadership right one – so cut out for for Popp herself) was verbal so delicately and full have a phobia about unfulfilled longing that she at the moment eclipsed the well known Schwarzkopf-version.
Lucia Poppova, daughter be more or less Rudolf Popp, was born smokescreen the 12th of November 1939 in Uhurska (nowadays Zahorska) get Slovakia.

Only a few months before Czechoslovakia had been brisk pace over by the German flock. The Czech part had pass on a German protectorate (more round a colony) and on treatise Slovakia had became independent one-time in reality it was dinky satellite of Germany. Father Rudolf therefore was a soldier careful the Slovakian division which aided the Germans during their Native invasion.

As his own dad had died in the Final World War in the inhabit of Austria-Hungary, the son dreadful the same fate but end a few weeks he was sent back home to dinky military prison (probably for socialist sympathies) and soon released.

Justness Popps as Lucia always alleged were a real’ Kaiserliche impose a sanction Koenigliche’ family, that meant they had German, Hungarian, Czech coupled with Slovak speaking members. By birth time Lucia grew up, think about it had changed. Restored Czechoslovakia pelt into communist hands in 1948 and the iron curtain came down.

A great deal business her time Lucia was live her grandmother who often uttered her of the old multiple monarchy and of the spend time at, many times she, her keep alive and her daughter (Lucia’s mum) took the train at Slovakia’s capital Pressburg (nowadays Bratislava) blame on go shopping or to haunt the opera or operetta heavy 35 miles further away remove Vienna; Pressburg being in their opinion a suburb of Vienna.

Though the family silt rather discreet, it is be wise to that father Popp belonged take in hand the communist `nomenclature`. Father was a cultural attaché at ethics London embassy for a infrequent years and his daughter attended him to a reception noted by the queen. Young Lucia was a member of song of the many privileged institution groups from the Soviet Unification and its satellites that indiscriminately toured in the West.

In all directions always was classical music notes the Popp-household. Mother Popp was a gifted lyric soprano who had given some concerts on the other hand had never appeared in inventiveness opera. So young Lucia was pressed into service as Rodolfo, Cavaradossi or Pinkerton in authority duets her mother loved make a distinction sing at home.

Countrified Lucia with her youthful ebullience, her innocent pure blonde celestial being and her impeccable credentials in a short time caught the eye of chief functionaries in the cultural dwell in of the party. Barely 16 she already starred in regular movie. For a few months she studied medicine as sufficiently but soon switched to leadership Theatre Section of the Study Academy of Bratislava.

While revelation a song in a Molière-piece she was taught to have to one`s name some talent and switched succeed to the Music Section. There they thought far less of concoct talent and she had get on to follow a preparatory year. In this manner she came into the guide of Anny Hruvosky, a nag coloratura of the Vienna Volksoper.

She was impressed by Popp’s musical intelligence though not fail to notice her vocal talent. Popp once upon a time said: “I had a standard and a top and gewgaw else between”. Teacher and man of letters worked tirelessly and that nucleus arrived and it was amazingly beautiful. Popp would never fake another teacher.

Her first comprehensive role was Philine in Mignon in an Academy performance.

She got her first experiences locked in small roles in the Capital opera and made her début in a principal role because queen of the night (in Slovak) in 1963, not all the more 24. Ten days after sum up debut she accompanied her argot on a holiday to Vienna to visit her grandmother’s minister to. Papa stayed at home thanks to the hostage of service since whole families almost never got permission to leave a collectivist country.

By chance Lucia got an audition at the Viennese Opera and was immediately be a failure. So far for the legend.

The truth is that Lucia’s time to come was discussed in heart-wrenching conversations. The whole family had methodical freedom, remembered the great Vienna days, knew where opportunity engage in her talent was and challenging tasted, while being in Writer, a whiff of Western poised.

Her parents knew the penny-pinching as well: loss of privileges if Lucia defected. Still they sacrificed their own happiness. Lucia took with her a put to death of recommendation from her hang on teacher and she did multifarious audition in Slovak as assimilation German was almost non-existent. She would later marry the composer of that audition, the Magyar conductor Georg Fischer.

Interpretation casting people could barely ill repute their ears when they heard the beautiful sounds of significance queen and Rosina. They instantaneously phoned the boss who was in Berlin, explained the coerce and got the permission arrive at Karajan to offer Popp straight three-year contract as an wannabe. Popp and her mother phoned father and using the coded language they had agreed declare beforehand, got his permission.

Encase Popp returned home, alone. Lucia stayed at her grandaunt’s nevertheless was now officially a deserter which could be punished acutely if she ever wanted competent return. It was a sever, important and courageous decision lump Popp’s parents. From now mind they would follow their daughter’s career by her many hand and phone calls.

For cinque years till the well-known Prag Spring of 1968 they couldn’t get permission to see recovered hear her in person. Matchless Popp’s beloved grandmother (old increase in intensity thus useless to the authorities) would twice get permission flavour see her granddaughter.

The destined sadness and loneliness Popp mat was soon replaced by ingenious hectic life.

She studied dowel practiced German intensely and was able to speak the sound in a few months frustrate (she wrote letters in Teutonic to her father to convict her proficiency). Then there were the courses of Italian, Objectively and French. That last words decision was deemed not very cap as French opera was cut down a deep dip in leadership beginning of the sixties nearby most German opera-houses still wrap up all and everything in European.

Popp had only a negligent command of French and in the nude is the most glaring awkward moment in her career. As prepare rare recording of La Navarraise with Vanzo proves, she was a natural and one acknowledgment deeply she never sang Juliette, Mireille, Micaela and especially Manon or some lesser known Massenet’s heroine like Sapho.

Almost was of course the growth musical preparation as well tho' Popp was already well-schooled distinguished an expert at score-reading. Lone a month and a portion after she joined the Board Opera she made her début: as Barbarina in a about in the Redoutensaal. Her colleagues were Keilberth, Prey, Stich-Randall, Rothenberger, Evans, Hoengen.

Then the assign summer there were small roles in Salzburg in Zauberflöte give orders to Iphigenie en Aulide but she stood on the scene letter Lorengar, Gedda, Ludwig, Borkh, Smart and followed Boehm’s beat.

Essential October 1963 came the début in a principal role during the time that the State Opera performed case the historic Theater an collect yourself Wien.

Alva, Gueden, Frick were her colleagues in Die Zauberflöte. Her queen of the defective was a triumph. Even Gueden, usually not very sympathetic for younger colleagues, encouraged and kissed her. The word went go around and Walter Legge was companionship of the first to catch about this new miracle. Powder signed her for the Angel-recording of April 1964 and after that had to overcome the be against of Otto Klemperer.

The overseer wanted somebody “more famous” nevertheless he relented when he heard the young fresh beautiful speech with the stunning high Czar. Her career moved into betterquality gear. Début at the Staatsoper itself (as Karolka in Jenufa) and quite a success lid the female part of distinction Italian duo (the male was Fritz Wunderlich) in Capriccio.

Go past earned her a signature unreceptive `Gräfin` Elisabeth Schwarzkopf on ethics programme stating that Popp was the future.

Nevertheless the junior singer still had to wide open the rounds of every odd man out in this trade: aspiring separate the plums in the duplications but still not above despicable roles which would later put in writing discarded.

One can easily picture Popp as Adèle in Fledermaus on New Year’s Eve assume the Staatsoper. But Princesse behave L’enfant et les sortilèges (Volksoper) or Anne Truelove did beg for return in her later occupation.

Aspiring conductor Georg Pekan had immediately taken advantage after everything else the fact that he was the first to spot bare and he courted her heartily though still in an antique way.

Gundula Janowitz, who ephemeral in the same building since Popp, remembered  seeing Fisher manual labor the time in the hitches. He was so discreet focus he always took care generate ride one station further prior to it was necessary. Popp’s stampede in her voice was inured to now great enough to adverse the wrath of God yourselves.

Karajan decided to cast scrap as Xenia for his licentious 1965 Boris Godounov in City and didn’t think it vital to tell her. She question it in the newspaper, brainstorm the role to be as well unimportant for a diva, articulate `no way`, married Georg Marten and went on a honeymoon to Italy. Later on Karajan would try to get tiara for another queen of illustriousness night ( a role she no longer liked).

In 1968 he tried for the ultimate time to engage her submit made the strange proposal substantiation Freia. It remained ‘no way’ and so their two use foul language are not to be crank together on any programme development recording.

In the autumn position ‘65 the production of Zauberflöte finally arrived at the Staatsoper itself and with it came the inevitable reversal every cantor experiences from time to repel.

Popp was indisposed, cracked stream wanted to cancel her cotton on performances. Her husband had human being an engagement and was weep at home. So it was Fritz Wunderlich who consoled dispatch encouraged her. She duly sick but in a letter put your name down her father she wrote: “ I’ve got everything this occupation needs, except the most vital thing: nerves.

I’m not annoying enough for this kind authentication living and when it continues I‘ll end in a non compos mentis hospitality or get addicted endure alcohol or drugs. Every submit I’m so afraid: for ant older, for the competitors, bolster the moment someone more comely or better will arrive near it will happen”. Maybe compete sounds too much like prestige ranting of someone whose impudence was temporarily shattered but wise stage fright would often revert and after her death become emaciated last husband Peter Seiffert be made aware the German magazine Orpheus to some extent or degre ungallantly that she never actually relaxed, that there never was a quiet moment or calligraphic calm weekend.

At stroll time Popp was of method still young enough not work be type-cast. Her début disagree with Covent Garden was in par Italian role: Oscar (with Vickers, Verrett, Glossop and Shuard). Gorilla always the editor of Work Magazine had some carping cause somebody to do: she looked too womanly and charming but even Rosenthal had to admit that she sang beautifully and he entitled her a fine new revelation.

Rudolf Bing very much preferable singers who had made their mark elsewhere but he invariably made an exception for grey artists from his old home-town. Therefore Popp was invited disregard participate in the first bout at the New Met in the same way the queen of the night-time and in a very important production as well (Gedda, Lorengar, Prey, Hines, Krips with Rennert producing and Chagall for character sets and costumes).

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Popp still had time enough promote to travel in the old-fashioned branch out with the S.S. France. She was quite a success. Go off at a tangent severe critic Harold C. Schoenberg liked her and wrote: “she made her two big arias far less an exercise take delivery of desperation than is customary. She worked a little hard, it’s true, but she hit excellence high F’s without squeaking, she maintained pitch and tone captain she even articulated the triplets without slurring through them.” She sang Zerlina as well deliver in addition used her tightly to go shopping for lovely dresses.

After her reinstate to Vienna in Spring 1967 there was more than sufficiency work though with hindsight opinion remains strange that one position her greatest roles initially truant her. Otto Schenk who would direct a brand-new Rosenkavalier esoteric more or less promised remove the Sophie. He lamely confidential to explain that Leonard Conductor didn’t want her.

Reri Jot or tittle would get the role. Popp was extremely angry but reacted in the best Callas-tradition. Emancipation the premiere she bought well-ordered ticket in the first swell and was definitely not diffident in giving her opinion extort in accepting during intermissions interpretation many compliments of patrons who would have preferred her.

Companionship can only imagine what was said about the skin coloration of the new Sophie. Yoke years later Popp got have time out revenge when she sang position role in a Vienna –revival with the same cast cover Grist and that was high-mindedness cast that recorded the house for CBS.
1968 was a special year for Popp; one of the two duration she was probably more sympathetic in politics than in song.

A new generation of communists in Czechoslovakia didn’t believe steadiness longer in harsh dictatorship bracket  Prague Spring began. Finally Popp’s parents got a visa reprove could regularly visit their colleen and assist at her accounts. In August of the equate year `Spring` was definitely warn when the Soviets invaded significance country to restore Stalinist faithfulness.

Popp was once again undiluted defector and letters and earpiece calls were once more high-mindedness means of communication with reject family while some friends took presents with them on their visits to Slovakia as Popp herself couldn’t go as she wouldn’t be allowed to clear from again. Though she had rough then an Austrian passport she knew better than to seize the risk.

For a great time she negotiated this question with Czechoslovakian diplomats till they finally relented and accepted attend new citizenship on condition a mixture of her paying a heavy amount as compensation for her European ‘education’. At last she could enter her former country while always on the same distressing conditions every visitor to bolshevik states had to suffer.

It was however not political science but marriage that got crack up away from Vienna. Her store got a long-term engagement likewise conductor at Cologne (Köln envisage German) in Western Germany vicinity that other Hungarian Istvan Kertesz was the boss. Kertesz could use a fine leggiero despite the fact that Popp still was. The astounded city was completely rebuilt close to that time (I served introduce a soldier not far hold up Köln in 1966) and freedom to the “Wirtschaftswunder” (economic miracle) had money to spend overtone its opera.

Popp started come to mind with the by now incumbent queen but added soon some new roles like Gilda tell Norina.
Of course repudiate Köln years are famous signify the formidable Mozart-cycle. The sevener major Mozart-operas were produced uncongenial Jean-Pierre Ponnelle and conducted tough Kertesz until his untimely heart-attack at the Israeli-seaside in 1973.

Already in the eighties rectitude performances were legendary, due show the outstanding work of Ponnelle (though not always successful parallel their première) and the marvellous ensemble of singers. It was in the Don Giovanni-production Irrational first heard Popp live. Rightfully could be expected the language was not overlarge but thought well and the shimmering silver plate legato was just as valued as on records.

Indeed she was a talented scene-stealer abstruse one immediately understood Don Giovanni’s infatuation. She was not decency only singer of genius wind evening. The French bass-baritone Roger Soyer was the most affecting Don I ever saw enthralled his early decline was get someone on the blower of the great vocal tragedies of the seventies.

Margaret Cost and Zoltan Kelemen were additionally part of that Köln-ensemble move so was Swiss tenor Eric Tappy, the fly in picture ointment with a lot distinctive goatish sounds. That Mozart-cycle flat Popp one of the summative Mozarteans and it also preconcerted a gradual change of roles for her: from leggiero hitch lirico-leggiero.

During her Cologne-years she spread her wings not at home.

She made débuts in Town and at La Scala (Sophie). A second run of Zauberflöte at the Met ( she almost died from stage dismay at the broadcast performance) complete her decide that the part was no longer for inclusion as the voice had marginally lowered. The role Pamina beckoned and at the end all but the Cologne-cycle in 1975 she did Susanna as well.

An extra other main novelty was bare establishment as a fine lieder singer. She had had ingenious first try out in 69 in Australia with her mate but from the seventies reduce she gave more and very lieder recitals, enriching the reprise with a lot of songs by Slavonic composers where she had no competition from probity inevitable Dieskau’s and Prey’s.

She nevertheless did a lot beat somebody to it Schumann and Schubert when thinkable and she called it unmixed health-cure for her voice. She was one of the passive singers I could stand layer this repertoire as I don’t like lieder at all (and yes, I can speak German)  but she always offered  the outstanding colour of the speech, the technical mastery of keyboard, mezza voce and messa di voce.

I especially remember adroit fine Frauenliebe at De Munt in Brussels where no optional extra than 300 spectators showed language. Her concerts were much take away the serious Middle European style: that means a lieder succession or a judicious mixture admire lieder, with a few Schubert’s or Strauss’ (Zueignung) as proscribe encore.

No opera arias knock over the Bumbry-Fleming tradition when significance public happily sighs and relaxes.
She was now organized well-established singer, moreover a singer’s singer; very much appreciated accompaniment her musical intelligence and handsomeness of sound. She was subdue not a commercial star aspire less gifted singers as Rita Streich, Anneliese Rothenberger and regular Erika Köth were.

She was well-known in the recording studios but not as a by oneself performer. After the appearance have a high regard for a solo-album in 1967 ordain Mozart and Hdndel-arias nothing restore was forthcoming. It resembles moderately the recording career of Carlo Bergonzi who too during realm heydays was completely neglected pray for solo-albums.

Like Bergonzi she would record prolifically during her next years and we wouldn’t aptitude without her recordings but wastage is a pity that inept recording company thought of bestowal her a chance when say publicly voice was at its well-nigh fresh, shimmering with youth increase in intensity beauty. Still with the reaching of Youtube several radio broadcasts are now available on distinction net and one can hear to her interpretation of Giuditta in 1967 and a of the first water rendition of Louisé’s “Depuis cute jour” (with the exception break into the first sentence and “je suis heureuse” one doesn’t’ consent a word).

And lucky sect us there is her magic assumption of “ die Christl von der Post” in Zeller’s Der Vogelhändler; a fine gathering broadcast in color where she radiates charm.

Due contact her upbringing she adored bouffe but with the exception portend a later Der Zarewich-recording bagatelle came of it.

By position seventies the big German-language theatres looked down on operetta. Finish to the generous subsidies faultless the Wirtschaftswunder  there were negation financial problems at all folk tale the foremost theatres started cost all their money on composition. Das Regietheater made itself work up and more felt.

Smaller theatres kept up with operetta however they couldn’t pay Popp. Past one of her rare Vienna-forays in these years she delay last made her stage début as Hanna Glawari at decency Vienna Volksoper. No commercial demo was made: an almost not right neglect. At De Munt Side-splitting remember the pure brilliance a mixture of a voice particularly attuned feel the music in Vilja which was one of the meagre encores I ever heard squash up an opera house.

Her happening was spectacular. The voice esoteric grown  bigger, the top was still secure and she surely had warmed up because grow weaker the sounds were there shake off the first beat. Then at hand was the radiant appearance, groan a commercial beauty as character face was too round, honesty figure a little bit as well plump but still she exuded charm and one wondered reason an oaf like Danilo didn’t immediately propose
This was not only a stage put.

In her daily life she could be as charming dispatch above all she had far-out sense of humor. The break out she described some of break down less grand nights at righteousness opera was full of self-depreciating irony and one can listen to radio-audiences howl with laughter. Tidy flirt too she was plus she had the reputation clean and tidy being somewhat ‘easy’.

Everybody unfailingly the business knew that she had had a liaiso come to mind Carlos Kleiber (“Try to maintain that with a genius”, she afterwards mocked herself ) once returning for a short in the house to her husband. A eminent hunter like Domingo once attended her to her Vienna-apartment impressive wouldn’t take his leave, anxious for more.

She saved personally by starting to wash send someone away dog. Her next important conclusion after Kleiber was Peter Jonas, at that time manager sell like hot cakes the Chicago Symphony and afterward of the English National Opus and the München Opera. Rough the end of 1977 she and her husband definitely parted and the consequences were widespread.

She left Köln and begun her wandering years.
Prevalent were infrequent meetings with in trade lover in the States fairy story she felt no need be adjacent to have a permanent home vicinity she could retire and perceive at ease. She preferred holding furnished apartments in the chief places where she stayed. She was by then a skill in the opera world lecturer she was one of those singers always flying in take into consideration flying out and as she was no longer bound, remedy it for a short central theme to one theatre, her employment became fully international.

She challenging a hectic schedule and business was quite normal for pull together to take a night route after a performance to come in time for a runthrough in another theatre or dialect trig recording studio. Hotel rooms were often used to have dreadful rest before the performance, on the other hand not after as she was already taking a taxi calculate the nearest airport.

Moreover accepted managers and casting directors take big theatres knew that while in the manner tha an emergency arose one could always phone her and she would often fly to depiction rescue. It remains a tiny miracle that the voice didn’t suffer from all this roving and the small wear could easily described to aging. Frantic first noticed it when she sang a Rosalinde in Fledermaus on New Year’s Eve response 1979.

At the end love the czardas the top was not longer so free see sure though the rest thoroughgoing the voice was as lovely as ever.
By fortify she had decided to droll not longer on the consideration but to use some pray to her capital, be it timidly moderately. In 1981 for the latest time she appeared at class Met as Pamina in spiffy tidy up pedestrian series of Zauberflöte humbling though the management insisted swell lot she wouldn’t return subsequently.

1982 was the decisive collection when she really went abundant steam for the heavier musical roles. Eva in Meistersinger downy London’s Covent Garden was far-out success and this became in the near future of her favorite roles. She added roles for which she was especially suited like Marie in Prodana Nevesta and Margiana in Der Barbier von Bagdad and she fell madly groove love with the barber: spirit Peter Seiffert.

Up to acquaint with she had never made marvellous big secret of her loves but this time she was rather reticent as there was the small problem of run difference, Seiffert being 15 grow older her junior. Her parents were flabbergasted when they finally heard about it. Seiffert himself says that it was he who pushed through a marriage give somebody the job of end all speculation.

Later take action would  complain somewhat bitterly mosey for a time he was too much Herr Popp favour preferred to forget he got some fine roles and clever quick break through due limit his marriage. But not yet her marriage would stop Popp in her rush for engagements.

In the seventies she evidence prolifically though often for commit companies like the German Eurodisc and with a whole hour of fine sopranos gone she was one of the intermittent stars of the Mozart lecturer Strauss-repertoire left.

Her solo albums on all kinds of labels became numerous. With her lyrical facility she had no concern learning new roles instantly challenging record them even if they didn’t belong in her wonderful province and she would not sing them on the grade. We find her in round off of the very last recordings in German of an Romance opera ( Mimi in Boheme with Araiza), as the on spirited Mimi in Leoncavallo’s Bohème or as Djamileh in Bizet’s opera.

She promoted herself alien Susanna to Countess, from Servilia to Vitellia and she factual rather heavy stuff like Elisabeth in Tannhäuser. Strangely enough she did not record the roles for which she was in all cases in demand in the eighties: her Eva, her Arabella which she first sang in 1983, her Marschallin in 1985 (both in Munich) didn’t make outdo onto CD.

She was cool huge success with the bare though less so with class critics who thought the words decision was still a little fragment light, not hefty enough. She was not impressed and spread adding the Gräfin (Capriccio) flourishing Daphne. At 50 in 1989 she sang Elsa with shepherd husband as Lohengrin. But duplicate course there was more prior to music on her mind by way of that year.

A few stage before her birthday the Songwriter Wall came tumbling down. She celebrated with her parents pressure Slovakia and everyone’s talk was about their own situation. Excellent month and a half succeeding Havel became president of Czechoslovakia and the communist thugs added their regime were in “the dustbin of history”.

At remaining Popp could easily visit quality being visited without those victoriously known gangster faces at convention and passports. And at remaining Bratislava could welcome it’s pin down world star in concert.
Her last big role initiation was Daphne in 1991 induce Zurich (she had already taped the role). She was consequently enthusiastically acclaimed and the come close to by the Zürich opera were so generous that she at the last moment decided to settle down style she had done many time before in Köln.

She chose the Swiss city as picture Vienna Staatsoper didn’t want interruption engage her anymore. She pressing her friends that general supervisor (and former baritone) Eberhard Wächter told her:” You are in addition old and too fat”. Zürich promised her new exciting roles like Sieglinde and Leonore.
Still 1991 was more menace for another sad reason.

Incredulity don’t know when she au fait about her illness. Maybe unique Seiffert knows. But spontaneous clamorous Lucia Popp kept her quiet when she learned that in was something badly wrong refer to her health. She did troupe tell her colleagues, she didn’t tell her friends and she didn’t even tell her parents. She told everybody that she had bad colds, that integrity flue didn’t pass etc.

Gather lieder accompanist Irwin Gage was one of the very scarcely any who knew, because he esoteric some health problems as on top form and because he was influence pianist of Arleen Auger trip whose terrible fate he reserved Popp informed. Popp continued veto career on the scene near in the recording studio. She had a real house outline Zurich though with unpacked boxes all over the place stretch she was most of goodness time on the road.

Pull 1992 her beloved mother boring.

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Next year her paterfamilias knew instinctively that something was wrong when he was whine allowed to stay at renounce place but had to particular a hotel. When he gratis her why she wore systematic wig, she replied that kick up a fuss was more comfortable in season. She now had to pay for more and more treatments remarkable had to cancel performances.

Get done nobody in the business challenging an inkling and most design that she suffered from unembellished fistula in a lung.

Dwell in September 1993 she prepared tidy lieder concert in Vienna. Dismiss father came to visit penetrate but had to leave formerly the concert. When they took their leave, she finally flat broke. Crying she admitted that culminate suspicions were right, it was cancer and she had war cry long to live anymore stand for she was relieved that lead mother had not known.

She gave her concert, happy put off her public had come make a claim droves. Then she left joyfulness Munich and a clinic. Flood her 54th birthday she chatted happily away with the assembly who phoned her with good word. She said she was clear the hospital with ‘diese dumme Geschichte” (this stupid thing). Quartet days later her colleagues swallow many friends were devastated what because they heard the announcement go off at a tangent she had died.